• pingveno@lemmy.mlOP
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    “Welcome to the end of democracy!” Posobiec declared. “We’re here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here,” he said, holding his fist in the air. “That’s right, because all glory is not to government, all glory to God.”

    When Democrats raise red flags about Republicans trying to end democracy, maybe listen, because Republicans aren’t hiding it anymore.

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    Holy shit. It does not get anymore brazen than this. He flat out called for the end of democracy. This is facsim plain and simple. This mimicks Hitler’s rise to power almost perfectly. Hell, even Texas is ready to roundup as many immigrants as possible and ship them out to god knows where. It’s sickening that this is what republicans and calling for when Trump wins the primary inevitably. Wake the fuck up people, this is happening.

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      It’s been happening since the 1930s. It’s far too normalized to get the response it should.

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    I guess it’s something that these traitors are finally admitting that Jan 6. was a coup attempt. Not antifa, not a false flag by the FBI, not a little happy tour or whatever little ruse they come up with to deflect or justify it. At what point does this become treason? Do his followers have to try to take over an army base or something?

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      At what point does this become treason? Do his followers have to try to take over an army base or something?

      No level of action is beyond the far right’s ability to concoct a flimsy excuse that only makes sense to them.

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    That fellow needs to appreciate that when the entirety of the criminal justice system fails to stop them, the rest of us are a Go.

    Actually, Merrick could do with some appreciation of that as well.